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Experts to explore energy development in Gulf of Mexico, 10 am Aug. 3
A panel of experts will discuss the current offshore drilling policy in the Gulf of Mexico at a National Press Club Newsmakers press conference at 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 3, in the Zenger Room. Panel participants include Michael Bromwich, consultant and former director of the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, U.S. Department of the Interior; Jennifer Dlouhy, Washington correspondent, Houston Chronicle; Dr. Bernard Weinstein, associate director, Maguire Energy Institute, Southern Methodist University and author of “The Outlook for Energy Production in the Gulf of Mexico: How the…
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Date change for freelance meeting on travel writing, 8:45 am July 31
The National Press Club Freelance Committee will meet at 8:45 a.m. Tuesday, July 31, in the McClendon Room to talk about travel writing. The date has been changed due to the memorial service for columnist William Raspberry. Experienced Club members will discuss who, what, when, how and maybe even where to pitch travel and adventure stories. RSVP Peggy Orchowski, Freelance Committee chair,[email protected].
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PBS Newshour co-anchors promise exhaustive, illuminating political convention coverage
PBS Newshour co-anchors Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff promised the show’s viewers greater in-depth coverage of the political conventions this year than they have ever seen. “We believe the architecture of democracy matters,” Ifill told a National Press Club luncheon audience on July 24, expressing the philosophy that suffuses the show's award-winning coverage and serves as the foundation for its plans to cover the conventions exhaustively. Those inside the convention halls, she said, are the most politically informed and engaged people in America. But the people Newshour will also devote a…
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President Speech
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Club member stages Lincoln play
National Press Club member Anthony Gallo will have his play, "Lincoln and God," presented by the Greenbelt Arts Center and the Seventh Street Playhouse over the next two weekends. The two-act drama examines President Abraham Lincoln's conflict with men andGod through his defeats, triumphs, and tragedies during the Civil War on the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. Performances will be held in the historic Greenbelt Arts Center July 27-29 and Aug. 3-5. For more information, contact Gallo at [email protected].
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Actress Elizabeth Taylor promotes AIDS research at Club, 1996
This Week In National Press Club History July 22, 1996: Actress Elizabeth Taylor returns to the National Press Club as an outspoken leader for many years in the fight against AIDS. A founder of the American Foundation for AIDS Research, and the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation, she speaks about the need to provide disadvantaged people with AIDS in this country and around the world with better drugs and care, and how more people can be prevented from contracting HIV. July 25, 1991: Friends of the National Journalism Library is established as a 501©3 organization to support the library and…
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Questions about Member survey? Send them here: [email protected]
Thank you to the many of you who have already completed the National Press Club member survey that should have arrived in your e-mail box last week. The correct e-mail address for questions about the survey is [email protected]. Please e-mail us also if you haven't received the survey. Your opinion is important and will be kept confidential. This is your once-every-five-years chance be part of the Club's opinion-gathering work as we write our next strategic plan and make decisions about Club priorities and spending. Please make sure your voice is heard by clicking on the link in your survey e…
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Get a behind-the-scenes glimpse of "Club Rewind" at Photo Committee meeting, noon July 25
Vija Udenans, director of the National Press Club Broadcast Operations Center, will give a behind-the-scenes look at how the "Press Club Rewind"--the weekly video review of Club events--is produced at the next meeting of the Club's Photography Committee at noon, Wednesday, July 25, in the McClendon Room. Click here to see a recent edition of "Rewind." All Club members and their guests are welcome; however, space is limited. No reservations are necessary. After her luncheon talk, Udenans will conduct a tour of the Club's Broadcast Operations Center (BOC), located on the fourth floor of the…
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Reduce health care costs by putting docs on salary, says Cleveland Clinic executive
U.S. hospitals must find new ways to halt the nation's soaring health care costs, Dr. Delos Cosgrove, president and chief executive of the Cleveland Clinic, said at a July 20 National Press Club luncheon. One step they should take is to put all doctors on salary, as the Cleveland and Mayo Clinics do, according to Cosgrove. Most doctors charge patients based on tests and other services they perform. "Doctors on salary are paid the same no matter the number of tests and other services," Cosgrove said. He also came down hard and repeatedly on the "obesity epidemic," chronic smoking and the poor…
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Haver carries on family tradition of culinary, customer service excellence at Fourth Estate
Olivia Haver, the new manager of the Fourth Estate Restaurant at the National Press Club, grew up in and around restaurants. The daughter of a chef, she absorbed her father's passion for food and customer customer service and lived in a home where excellence in food preparation was the norm. Her father helped develop and nurture a palette for food prepared correctly and eschewed limiting his child’s food exposure to kid-only food choices. It is a deep seated memory for Haber and something she aspires to emulate. Haver comes to the Club after earning a degree in music from Penn State…
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